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πολύσιτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύσιτος πολύσιτον

Structure: πολυσιτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. abounding in corn
  2. high-fed, full of meat

Examples

  • δειλινὸν ὡσ κατέδαρθον ἐν εἰναλίοισι πόνοισιν οὐ μὰν ἦν πολύσιτοσ, ἐπεὶ δειπνεῦντεσ ἐν ὡρ́ᾳ, εἰ μέμνῃ, τᾶσ γαστρὸσ ἐφειδόμεθ’, εἶδον ἐμαυτὸν ἐν πέτρᾳ μεμαῶτα, καθεζόμενοσ δ’ ἐδόκευον ἰχθύασ, ἐκ καλάμων δὲ πλάνον κατέσειον ἐδωδάν. (Theocritus, Idylls, 29)
  • πολύσιτοσ δ’ ἄγαν ἐστὶν ὥστε ἑκατοντάχουν δι’ ὁμαλοῦ καὶ κριθὴν καὶ πυρὸν ἐκτρέφειν, ἔστι δ’ ὅτε καὶ διακοσιοντάχουν· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 3 22:1)

Synonyms

  1. abounding in corn

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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